Not only can Kevin Mitnick not touch a computer, cell phone, or the Internet for three years, but
a judge is trying to bar him from the lecture circut because he's talking about hacking and technology. I wonder, if they get him to stop
talking about technology, are they going to bust him for
thinking about it too?
posted by mathowie
on Apr 28, 2000 -
4 comments
Feds seize Cuban Hacker in a raid early morning this weekend. 6 year old Elian Gonzalez was arrested for hacking Microsoft.
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Check out this hilarious spoof.
posted by da5id
on Apr 24, 2000 -
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They bagged the kid who was responsible for all those Denial-of-Service attacks a couple of months ago. He's Canadian.
Here's an interesting legal question: could the US extradite him? The crimes were committed in the US, but he was in Canada at the time he did it, since he worked through the Internet. Whose laws apply?
(By the way, I've seen no indication that the US is considering extradition; I was just curious whether they
could extradite him.)
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Apr 19, 2000 -
18 comments
Last night
Kevin Mitnick was on 60 minutes (the gist of the interview is
quoted here), and I have to say he came off as an utterly harmless geek. He was an information junkie that enjoyed the challenge of cracking firewalls. He never profited from his activities and the affected companies made up their monetary losses. It's a shame he was forced to waste away in prison instead of offer his security expertise to the affected companies.
posted by mathowie
on Jan 24, 2000 -
1 comment
Today, I was searching for some stock art photos at
photodisc. I needed an image of someone programming a computer, and in that search
I found this picture. The words associated with it were all variations of 'hacker' but I was surprised that I didn't see 'leather and flashlight fetish' in the keywords. And by the way, don't you think a hacker would know how to type correctly?
posted by mathowie
on Oct 1, 1999 -
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